Washing basin



July 26,1927.

f 1,636,865 R. O. KRASSELT WASHING BAS I N Filed March 4, 1927 Patented July 26, 1927.

UniTi-:al .STATES PATENT oFFTcs.

ROBERT OSKAR KRASSELT, OF LEIPZIG, GERMANY.

WASHING BASIN.

Application filed March 4, 1927, Serial No. 172,789, and in Germany October 6, 1926.

The washing arrangements placed at the disposal ot the public in public-rooms, principally those in railway-stations, require tor hygienic reasons special attendance, whereby expenses are caused which are covered by a moderate charge to be paid by the person who uses the washing arrangement. It has been proposed to provide in connection with the washing utensils, a penny-in-theslot machine or to cash the tees by the attendant. In the latter case it happens 'frequently that a. portion ot the receipts is embezzlcd by the attendant.

In order to prevent this and to make it impossible that the washingutensils be used without paying' a tee, the washing basin rotatable around an eccentric axis is combined, according to the invention, with a counting- Inechanism and held in the emptying-position and'in the position of use by an automatically acting locking device, which can be unlocked only by means of a special key. The novelty consists in providing notches in a disk fixed on the axle of the washing-basin and a. lock with snap-latch which is designed to automatically engage with one of these notches. The spring-controlled latch may be connected with the locking-bolt ot' the locks by means of an intermediate lever.

Two embodiments of the invention are shown, by way of example, in the accompanying drawing in which V Fig. l shows in side elevation the washing table and the washingbasin the latter being shown in full lines-in the position of use and in dash-lines in the vertical position.

Fig. 2 is a top plan view of Fig. l.

Fig. 3 is an end elevation.

Figs. 4-6 show similar views to Figs. 1 to 3, the locking mechanism being of other construc-tion.

The washing basin c is oscillatably mounted in the table plate Z by eccentric journals On one of these journals b a disk g is fixed, which has notches c', z", designed to receive a spring-controller latch lo. The latch lc, which forms at the same time the locking bolt tor the lock m, can be pulled back only by means of a separate key which is in possession ot the attendant. The counting mechanism can be arranged so that it is operated either when the basin oscillates to adopt the vertical position or when it is being lowered into the position ot use. In the drawing the counting mechanism is shown operated at the lowering of the basin a. A nosen at the front end of the basin c bears, at the descending of the ba-V plate Z may be arranged, as shown in Figs.

I to 6, in the front portion of the table plate-frame, i. e. at a point which is not liable to get dirty. In this case the snap-latch is connected to the locking-bolt 7c of the lock m by a two-armed pivoted lever o".

I claim:

l. Tippable washing-basin for public use, comprising in combination with a basin proper oscillatably mounted in a table plate by eccentric journals, a counting mechanism, means for operating said counting mechanism from the koscillating basin, and means for locking the basin in the position of use and in the emptying position said means to be unlocked with the aid of a special key.

2. Tippable washing-basin for public use, comprising in combination with a basin proper oscillatably mounted in a table plate by eccentric ournals, a counting mechanism, means for operating said counting mechanism :trom the oscillating basin, a disk having two notches and tiXed on one of said journals, a lock in the table plate, and a locking-bolt in said lock serving as snaplatch engaging with the one or other of said notches and, locking the basin in the position of use and in the emptying position said snap latch to be unlocked with the aid ot a special key.

3. Tippable Washing-basin for public use,

com risincr in combination with a basin proper oscillatebly mounted in a table plate in the emptying position, a lock to be opby eccentric journals, a Counting mechanism, elated by a special key, and a two armed means for operating said counting 11i-echa pivoteil lever connecting said locking bolt 10 nism from the oscillating basin, a disk havwith said snap-lock.

ing two notches and fixed on one of seid In testimony Wliei'eofl :iix my signature. journals, a spring-controlled snap latch for locking said basin in the positionl of use and ROBERT OSKAR KRASSELT. 

